MILLER, Jesse, (father of William Henry Miller),
a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born near Landisburg, Perry County, Pa., in 1800;
attended the common schools;
first clerk to county commissioner of Perry County 1820-1823;
sheriff of Perry County 1823-1826;
member of the State house of representatives from 1826 until February 7, 1828, when he resigned;
served in the State senate 1828-1832;
elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1833, until his resignation on October 30, 1836;
chairman, Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses);
First Auditor of the Treasury Department, by appointment of President Jackson, 1836-1842;
canal commissioner of Pennsylvania in 1844 and 1845;
secretary of state of Pennsylvania 1845-1848;
died in Harrisburg, Pa., August 20, 1850;
interment in Harrisburg Cemetery.